DOCSLIB.ORG

Superman S Scariest Battles!

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Superman S Scariest Battles! SUPERHEROES vs. MONSTERS ISSUE! October 2019 No.116 $8.95 ™ MONSTERS IN METROPOLIS! SUPERMAN’S SCARIEST BATTLES! Superman and Titano TM & © DC Comics. All Rights Reserved. Batman and the Horror Genre • Marvel Scream-Up • Dracula and Godzilla vs. Marvel • DOUG MOENCH and KELLEY JONES’ Batman: Vampire • DC/Dark Horse Hero/ Monster crossovers • Baron Blood 7 with CLAREMONT, CONWAY, DIXON, 0 8 3 GIBBONS, GRELL, GULACY, JURGENS, 0 0 8 THOMAS, WOLFMAN & more 5 6 2 8 1 Relive The Pop Culture You Grew Up With In RetroFan! If you love Pop Culture of the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties, editor MICHAEL EURY’s latest magazine is just for you! RETROFAN #7 Featuring a JACLYN SMITH interview, as we reopen the Charlie’s Angels Casebook, and visit the Guinness World Records’ largest Charlie’s Angels collec- tion. Plus: an exclusive interview with funnyman LARRY STORCH, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Captain Action—the original super-hero action figure, a vintage interview with Jonny Quest creator DOUG WILDEY, a visit to the Land of Oz, the ultra-rare Marvel World superhero playset, & more! RETROFAN #6 RETROFAN #8 Interviews with MeTV’s crazy creepster NOW BI-MONTHLY! Interviews with the (84-page FULL- SVENGOOLIE and Eddie Munster himself, ’60s grooviest family band THE COWSILLS, COLOR magazine) BUTCH PATRICK! Call on the original and TV’s coolest mom JUNE LOCKHART! $8.95 Saturday Morning GHOST BUSTERS, with Mars Attacks!, MAD Magazine in the ’70s, (Digital Edition) BOB BURNS! Uncover the nutty NAUGAS! Flintstones turn 60, Electra Woman & Dyna $4.95 Plus: “My Life in the Twilight Zone,” “I Girl, Honey West, Max Headroom, Popeye Was a Teenage James Bond,” “My Letters Picnic, the Smiley Face fad, & more! With Ships Dec. 2019 to Famous People,” the ARCHIE-DOBIE MICHAEL EURY, ERNEST FARINO, ANDY GILLIS connection, Pinball Hall of Fame, MANGELS, WILL MURRAY, SCOTT Alien action figures, Rubik’s Cube & more! SAAVEDRA, and SCOTT SHAW! Please add $1 per issue (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 for shipping in the US. (Digital Edition) $4.95 • Now shipping! (Digital Edition) $4.95 • Ships March 2020 RETROFAN #1 RETROFAN #2 RETROFAN #3 RETROFAN #4 RETROFAN #5 THE CRAZY, COOL CULTURE WE GREW HALLOWEEN! Horror-hosts ZACHERLEY, 40th Anniversary interview with SUPERMAN: Interviews with the SHAZAM! TV show’s Interviews with MARK HAMILL & Greatest UP WITH! LOU FERRIGNO interview, The VAMPIRA, SEYMOUR, MARVIN, and an THE MOVIE director RICHARD DONNER, JOHN (Captain Marvel) DAVEY and American Hero’s WILLIAM KATT! Blast Phantom in Hollywood, Filmation’s Star Trek interview with our cover-featured ELVIRA! IRWIN ALLEN’s sci-fi universe, Saturday MICHAEL (Billy Batson) Gray, the GREEN off with JASON OF STAR COMMAND! cartoon, “How I Met Lon Chaney, Jr.”, goofy THE GROOVIE GOOLIES, BEWITCHED, THE morning’s undersea adventures of Aquaman, HORNET in Hollywood, remembering mon- Stop by the MUSEUM OF POPULAR comic Zody the Mod Rob, Mego’s rare Elastic ADDAMS FAMILY, and THE MUNSTERS! horror and sci-fi zines of the Sixties and ster maker RAY HARRYHAUSEN, the way-out CULTURE! Plus: “The First Time I Met Hulk toy, RetroTravel to Mount Airy, NC (the The long-buried Dinosaur Land amusement Seventies, Spider-Man and Hulk toilet paper, Santa Monica Pacific Ocean Amusement Tarzan,” MAJOR MATT MASON, MOON real-life Mayberry), interview with BETTY park! History of BEN COOPER HALLOWEEN RetroTravel to METROPOLIS, IL (home of the Park, a Star Trek Set Tour, SAM J. JONES on LANDING MANIA, SNUFFY SMITH AT LYNN (“Thelma Lou” of The Andy Griffith COSTUMES, character lunchboxes, superhero Superman Celebration), SEA-MONKEYS®, the Spirit movie pilot, British sci-fi TV classic 100 with cartoonist JOHN ROSE, TV Show), TOM STEWART’s eclectic House of VIEW-MASTERS, SINDY (the British Barbie), FUNNY FACE beverages, Superman and THUNDERBIRDS, Casper & Richie Rich muse- Dinners, Celebrity Crushes, and more fun, Collectibles, and Mr. Microphone! and more! Batman memorabilia, & more! um, the KING TUT fad, and more! fab features! (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (Digital Edition) $4.95 • Now shipping! (Digital Edition) $4.95 • Now shipping! (Digital Edition) $4.95 • Now shipping! (Digital Edition) $4.95 • Now shipping! (Digital Edition) $4.95 • Now shipping! SUBSCRIBE NOW! Four issues: $41 Economy, $65 International, $16 Digital Only DON’T RISK A SOLD OUT ISSUE AT BARNES & NOBLE! TwoMorrows. SUBSCRIBE TODAY! Phone: 919-449-0344 The Future of Pop History. E-mail: [email protected] TwoMorrows Publishing • 10407 Bedfordtown Drive • Raleigh, NC 27614 USA Web: www.twomorrows.com Volume 1, Number 116 October 2019 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Michael Eury Comics’ Bronze Age and Beyond! PUBLISHER John Morrow DESIGNER Rich Fowlks COVER ARTIST Michael Golden (A commissioned illustration from the collection of Michael Eury.) COVER DESIGNER Michael Kronenberg PROOFREADER Rob Smentek SPECIAL THANKS Neal Adams Dennis O’Neil Cary Bates Martin Pasko Marc Buxton Benjamin Raab Chris Claremont Rose Rummel-Eury Gerry Conway Bill Sienkiewicz DC Comics Jerry Smith J. M. DeMatteis Roger Stern BACKSEAT DRIVER: Editorial by Michael Eury..................................2 Chuck Dixon Roy Thomas Steve Englehart Steven Thompson FLASHBACK: Superman vs. Monsters in the Bronze Age .........................3 Dave Gibbons Roger Stern If aliens and mad scientists weren’t enough, Metropolis was also plagued by monsters Michael Golden Toho Co. Ltd. Grand Comics 20th Century Fox FLASHBACK: Batman and the Horror Genre..................................15 Database Film Corp. The Batman of the early Bronze Age was a frightful creature of the night Glenn Greenberg Marv Wolfman Mike Grell Alan Zelenetz PRINCE STREET NEWS: Monster Mash . 24 Paul Gulacy A new cartoon by Karl Heitmueller, Jr. Karl Heitmueller, Jr. Heritage Comics FLASHBACK: Marvel Scream-Up . .26 Auctions Marvel’s monsters meet, greet, and beat (up) Spider-Man and the Thing Dan Johnson Dan Jurgens BRING ON THE BAD GUYS: Baron Blood . 38 Michael Kronenberg What villain could be worse than a sniveling Nazi vampire? Adam Kubert James Heath Lantz BEYOND CAPES: Dracula vs. the Marvel Universe .............................43 Doug Moench The Lord of Vampires stakes his claim in the House of Ideas FLASHBACK: Godzilla vs. the Marvel Universe ................................56 Don’t STEAL our The King of Monsters takes on Marvel’s mightiest Digital Editions! PRO2PRO: Interviews with the Batman: Vampire Creators .......................63 C’mon citizen, Doug Moench and Kelley Jones’ Batman: Red Rain trilogy DO THE RIGHT THING! A Mom BACKSTAGE PASS: Batman vs. Predator and Superman vs. Aliens.................71 & Pop publisher The earliest DC/Dark Horse superhero/movie monster crossovers like us needs every sale just to survive! DON’T BACK TALK ............................................................79 DOWNLOAD News you can use OR READ ILLEGAL COPIES ONLINE! Buy affordable, legal downloads only at www.twomorrows.com BACK ISSUE™ is published 8 times a year by TwoMorrows Publishing, 10407 Bedfordtown Drive, Raleigh, or through our Apple and Google Apps! NC 27614. Michael Eury, Editor-in-Chief. John Morrow, Publisher. Editorial Office: BACK ISSUE, c/o Michael Eury, Editor-in-Chief, 112 Fairmount Way, New Bern, NC 28562. Email: [email protected]. Eight-issue subscriptions: $82 Economy US, $128 International, $32 Digital. Please send subscription orders and funds to TwoMorrows, NOT to the editorial office. Cover art by Michael Golden. Superman, Titano the Super- & DON’T SHARE THEM WITH FRIENDS OR POST THEM ONLINE. Help us keep Ape, and the Daily Planet TM & © DC Comics. All Rights Reserved. All characters are © their respective producing great publications like this one! companies. All material © their creators unless otherwise noted. All editorial matter © 2019 Michael Eury and TwoMorrows. Printed in China. FIRST PRINTING. Superheroes vs. Monsters Issue • BACK ISSUE • 1 by Michael Eury If you were cornered by a thirsty bloodsucker, the clambering undead, or a snarling lycanthrope, you’d probably opt for the Man of Steel in your corner Sticking His Neck Out rather than a Van Helsing. Or maybe not, since the supernatural—technically, magic—is among the few weaknesses of the Bronze Age Superman. Big Blue versus Dracula and the Yet beginning in 1970, when editor Julius “Julie” Schwartz slid into the Frankenstein Monster! Detail from the Superman editorial chair vacated by the recently retired Mort Weisinger, the DC Comics editor who had shepherded the Metropolis Marvel throughout cover of Superman #344 (Feb. 1980). the Silver Age of Comics, Superman would occasionally encounter monsters, Art by José Luis García-López. despite Schwartz’s clearly established preference for science fiction over matters macabre. TM & © DC Comics. Superheroes vs. Monsters Issue • BACK ISSUE • 3 SILVER AGE MONSTER MASH-UPS Before we unleash the musty odors of those brittle, yellowed pages from the ’70s and ’80s and the fearsome fables they contain, let’s first pry open the Mylar tombs of the previous era of comic books, the Silver Age, for some important historical gravedigging. Blustery, iron-fisted DC editor Mort Weisinger famously kept his eye on trends and conducted focus groups of children (his readership) while fishing for subject matter for his Superman writers. During this time, a proliferation of classic horror films invaded late-night and weekend-matinee television schedules thanks to Shock Theater and its endless slew of clones, low-budget camp-fests hosted by TV weathermen and local goofballs masquerading as spooky, yet witty cryptkeepers. Youngsters were discovering the Hollywood monsters of yesteryear while also being regaled by the current crop of cinematic creepers blobbing and tingling their way into darkened movie theaters. Kids loved monsters, and Mort took notice. And so Superman, Monster Fighter became one of the hero’s tropes when Weisinger was commanding the franchise (at first abetted by World’s Finest Comics editor Jack Schiff, who, as legend has it, often bent to Mort’s formidable will).
Load more

Recommended publications
  • LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS American Comics SETH KUSHNER Pictures
    LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS LEAPING TALL From the minds behind the acclaimed comics website Graphic NYC comes Leaping Tall Buildings, revealing the history of American comics through the stories of comics’ most important and influential creators—and tracing the medium’s journey all the way from its beginnings as junk culture for kids to its current status as legitimate literature and pop culture. Using interview-based essays, stunning portrait photography, and original art through various stages of development, this book delivers an in-depth, personal, behind-the-scenes account of the history of the American comic book. Subjects include: WILL EISNER (The Spirit, A Contract with God) STAN LEE (Marvel Comics) JULES FEIFFER (The Village Voice) Art SPIEGELMAN (Maus, In the Shadow of No Towers) American Comics Origins of The American Comics Origins of The JIM LEE (DC Comics Co-Publisher, Justice League) GRANT MORRISON (Supergods, All-Star Superman) NEIL GAIMAN (American Gods, Sandman) CHRIS WARE SETH KUSHNER IRVING CHRISTOPHER SETH KUSHNER IRVING CHRISTOPHER (Jimmy Corrigan, Acme Novelty Library) PAUL POPE (Batman: Year 100, Battling Boy) And many more, from the earliest cartoonists pictures pictures to the latest graphic novelists! words words This PDF is NOT the entire book LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS: The Origins of American Comics Photographs by Seth Kushner Text and interviews by Christopher Irving Published by To be released: May 2012 This PDF of Leaping Tall Buildings is only a preview and an uncorrected proof . Lifting
    [Show full text]
  • Myth, Metatext, Continuity and Cataclysm in Dc Comics’ Crisis on Infinite Earths
    WORLDS WILL LIVE, WORLDS WILL DIE: MYTH, METATEXT, CONTINUITY AND CATACLYSM IN DC COMICS’ CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS Adam C. Murdough A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS August 2006 Committee: Angela Nelson, Advisor Marilyn Motz Jeremy Wallach ii ABSTRACT Angela Nelson, Advisor In 1985-86, DC Comics launched an extensive campaign to revamp and revise its most important superhero characters for a new era. In many cases, this involved streamlining, retouching, or completely overhauling the characters’ fictional back-stories, while similarly renovating the shared fictional context in which their adventures take place, “the DC Universe.” To accomplish this act of revisionist history, DC resorted to a text-based performative gesture, Crisis on Infinite Earths. This thesis analyzes the impact of this singular text and the phenomena it inspired on the comic-book industry and the DC Comics fan community. The first chapter explains the nature and importance of the convention of “continuity” (i.e., intertextual diegetic storytelling, unfolding progressively over time) in superhero comics, identifying superhero fans’ attachment to continuity as a source of reading pleasure and cultural expressivity as the key factor informing the creation of the Crisis on Infinite Earths text. The second chapter consists of an eschatological reading of the text itself, in which it is argued that Crisis on Infinite Earths combines self-reflexive metafiction with the ideologically inflected symbolic language of apocalypse myth to provide DC Comics fans with a textual "rite of transition," to win their acceptance for DC’s mid-1980s project of self- rehistoricization and renewal.
    [Show full text]
  • Toys and Action Figures in Stock
    Description Price 1966 Batman Tv Series To the B $29.99 3d Puzzle Dump truck $9.99 3d Puzzle Penguin $4.49 3d Puzzle Pirate ship $24.99 Ajani Goldmane Action Figure $26.99 Alice Ttlg Hatter Vinimate (C: $4.99 Alice Ttlg Select Af Asst (C: $14.99 Arrow Oliver Queen & Totem Af $24.99 Arrow Tv Starling City Police $24.99 Assassins Creed S1 Hornigold $18.99 Attack On Titan Capsule Toys S $3.99 Avengers 6in Af W/Infinity Sto $12.99 Avengers Aou 12in Titan Hero C $14.99 Avengers Endgame Captain Ameri $34.99 Avengers Endgame Mea-011 Capta $14.99 Avengers Endgame Mea-011 Capta $14.99 Avengers Endgame Mea-011 Iron $14.99 Avengers Infinite Grim Reaper $14.99 Avengers Infinite Hyperion $14.99 Axe Cop 4-In Af Axe Cop $15.99 Axe Cop 4-In Af Dr Doo Doo $12.99 Batman Arkham City Ser 3 Ras A $21.99 Batman Arkham Knight Man Bat A $19.99 Batman Batmobile Kit (C: 1-1-3 $9.95 Batman Batmobile Super Dough D $8.99 Batman Black & White Blind Bag $5.99 Batman Black and White Af Batm $24.99 Batman Black and White Af Hush $24.99 Batman Mixed Loose Figures $3.99 Batman Unlimited 6-In New 52 B $23.99 Captain Action Thor Dlx Costum $39.95 Captain Action's Dr. Evil $19.99 Cartoon Network Titans Mini Fi $5.99 Classic Godzilla Mini Fig 24pc $5.99 Create Your Own Comic Hero Px $4.99 Creepy Freaks Figure $0.99 DC 4in Arkham City Batman $14.99 Dc Batman Loose Figures $7.99 DC Comics Aquaman Vinimate (C: $6.99 DC Comics Batman Dark Knight B $6.99 DC Comics Batman Wood Figure $11.99 DC Comics Green Arrow Vinimate $9.99 DC Comics Shazam Vinimate (C: $6.99 DC Comics Super
    [Show full text]
  • Religion, Homosexuality, and Collisions of Liberty and Equality in American Public Law
    A Jurisprudence of "Coming Out": Religion, Homosexuality, and Collisions of Liberty and Equality in American Public Law William N. Eskridge, Jr.! Conflicts among religious and ethnic groups have scored American cultural and political history. Some of these conflicts have involved campaigns of suppression against deviant religious and minority ethnic groups by the mainstream. Although the law has most often been deployed as an instrument of suppression, there is now a public law consensus to preserve and protect the autonomy of religious and ethnic subcultures, as well as the ability of their members to self-identify without penalty. One thesis of this Essay is that this vaunted public law consensus should be extended to sexual orientation minorities as well. Like religion, sexual orientation marks both personal identity and social divisions.' In this century, in fact, sexual orientation has steadily been replacing religion as the identity characteristic that is both physically invisible and morally polarizing. In 1900, one's group identity was largely defined by one's ethnicity, social class, sex, and religion. The norm was Anglo-Saxon, middle-class, male, and Protestant. The Jew, Roman Catholic, or Jehovah's Witness was considered deviant and was subject to social, economic, and political discrimination. In 2000, one's group identity will be largely defined by one's race, income, sex, and sexual orientation. The norm will be white, middle-income, male, and heterosexual. The lesbian, gay man, or transgendered person will be considered deviant and will be subject to social, economic, and political discrimination. t Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. An earlier draft of this Essay was presented at workshops held at the Georgetown University Law Center.
    [Show full text]
  • Mary Douglas: Purity and Danger
    Purity and Danger This remarkable book, which is written in a very graceful, lucid and polemical style, is a symbolic interpretation of the rules of purity and pollution. Mary Douglas shows that to examine what is considered as unclean in any culture is to take a looking-glass approach to the ordered patterning which that culture strives to establish. Such an approach affords a universal understanding of the rules of purity which applies equally to secular and religious life and equally to primitive and modern societies. MARY DOUGLAS Purity and Danger AN ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPTS OF POLLUTION AND TABOO LONDON AND NEW YORK First published in 1966 ARK Edition 1984 ARK PAPERBACKS is an imprint of Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001. © 1966 Mary Douglas 1966 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 0-415-06608-5 (Print Edition) ISBN 0-203-12938-5 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-17578-6 (Glassbook Format) Contents Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 1.
    [Show full text]
  • A Chilling Look Back at Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's
    Jeph Loeb Sale and Tim at A back chilling look Batman and Scarecrow TM & © DC Comics. All Rights Reserved. 0 9 No.60 Oct. 201 2 $ 8 . 9 5 1 82658 27762 8 COMiCs HALLOWEEN HEROES AND VILLAINS: • SOLOMON GRUNDY • MAN-WOLF • LORD PUMPKIN • and RUTLAND, VERMONT’s Halloween Parade , bROnzE AGE AnD bEYOnD ’ s SCARECROW i . Volume 1, Number 60 October 2012 Comics’ Bronze Age and Beyond! The Retro Comics Experience! EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Michael Eury PUBLISHER John Morrow DESIGNER Rich J. Fowlks COVER ARTIST Tim Sale COVER COLORIST Glenn Whitmore COVER DESIGNER Michael Kronenberg PROOFREADER Rob Smentek SPECIAL THANKS Scott Andrews Tony Isabella Frank Balkin David Anthony Kraft Mike W. Barr Josh Kushins BACK SEAT DRIVER: Editorial by Michael Eury . .2 Bat-Blog Aaron Lopresti FLASHBACK: Looking Back at Batman: The Long Halloween . .3 Al Bradford Robert Menzies Tim Sale and Greg Wright recall working with Jeph Loeb on this landmark series Jarrod Buttery Dennis O’Neil INTERVIEW: It’s a Matter of Color: with Gregory Wright . .14 Dewey Cassell James Robinson The celebrated color artist (and writer and editor) discusses his interpretations of Tim Sale’s art Nicholas Connor Jerry Robinson Estate Gerry Conway Patrick Robinson BRING ON THE BAD GUYS: The Scarecrow . .19 Bob Cosgrove Rootology The history of one of Batman’s oldest foes, with comments from Barr, Davis, Friedrich, Grant, Jonathan Crane Brian Sagar and O’Neil, plus Golden Age great Jerry Robinson in one of his last interviews Dan Danko Tim Sale FLASHBACK: Marvel Comics’ Scarecrow . .31 Alan Davis Bill Schelly Yep, there was another Scarecrow in comics—an anti-hero with a patchy career at Marvel DC Comics John Schwirian PRINCE STREET NEWS: A Visit to the (Great) Pumpkin Patch .
    [Show full text]
  • Motion Picture Posters, 1924-1996 (Bulk 1952-1996)
    http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt187034n6 No online items Finding Aid for the Collection of Motion picture posters, 1924-1996 (bulk 1952-1996) Processed Arts Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Elizabeth Graney and Julie Graham. UCLA Library Special Collections Performing Arts Special Collections Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library Box 951575 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575 [email protected] URL: http://www2.library.ucla.edu/specialcollections/performingarts/index.cfm The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Finding Aid for the Collection of 200 1 Motion picture posters, 1924-1996 (bulk 1952-1996) Descriptive Summary Title: Motion picture posters, Date (inclusive): 1924-1996 Date (bulk): (bulk 1952-1996) Collection number: 200 Extent: 58 map folders Abstract: Motion picture posters have been used to publicize movies almost since the beginning of the film industry. The collection consists of primarily American film posters for films produced by various studios including Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, MGM, Paramount, Universal, United Artists, and Warner Brothers, among others. Language: Finding aid is written in English. Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Performing Arts Special Collections. Los Angeles, California 90095-1575 Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information. Restrictions on Access COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information. Restrictions on Use and Reproduction Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections.
    [Show full text]
  • ALEX ROSS' Unrealized
    Fantastic Four TM & © Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved. No.118 February 2020 $9.95 1 82658 00387 6 ALEX ROSS’ DC: TheLost1970s•FRANK THORNE’sRedSonjaprelims•LARRYHAMA’sFury Force• MIKE GRELL’sBatman/Jon Sable•CLAREMONT&SIM’sX-Men/CerebusCURT SWAN’s Mad Hatter• AUGUSTYN&PAROBECK’s Target•theill-fatedImpact rebootbyPAUL lost pagesfor EDHANNIGAN’sSkulland Bones•ENGLEHART&VON EEDEN’sBatman/ GREATEST STORIESNEVERTOLDISSUE! KUPPERBERG •with unpublished artbyCALNAN, COCKRUM, HA,NETZER &more! Fantastic Four Four Fantastic unrealized reboot! ™ Volume 1, Number 118 February 2020 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Michael Eury Comics’ Bronze Age and Beyond! PUBLISHER John Morrow DESIGNER Rich Fowlks COVER ARTIST Alex Ross COVER DESIGNER Michael Kronenberg PROOFREADER Rob Smentek SPECIAL THANKS Brian Augustyn Alex Ross Mike W. Barr Jim Shooter Dewey Cassell Dave Sim Ed Catto Jim Simon GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: Alex Ross and the Fantastic Four That Wasn’t . 2 Chris Claremont Anthony Snyder An exclusive interview with the comics visionary about his pop art Kirby homage Comic Book Artist Bryan Stroud Steve Englehart Roy Thomas ART GALLERY: Marvel Goes Day-Glo. 12 Tim Finn Frank Thorne Inspired by our cover feature, a collection of posters from the House of Psychedelic Ideas Paul Fricke J. C. Vaughn Mike Gold Trevor Von Eeden GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: The “Lost” DC Stories of the 1970s . 15 Grand Comics John Wells From All-Out War to Zany, DC’s line was in a state of flux throughout the decade Database Mike Grell ROUGH STUFF: Unseen Sonja . 31 Larry Hama The Red Sonja prelims of Frank Thorne Ed Hannigan Jack C. Harris GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: Cancelled Crossover Cavalcade .
    [Show full text]
  • Katalog Zur Ausstellung "60 Jahre Marvel
    Liebe Kulturfreund*innen, bereits seit Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs befasst sich das Amerikahaus München mit US- amerikanischer Kultur. Als US-amerikanische Behörde war es zunächst für seine Bibliothek und seinen Lesesaal bekannt. Doch schon bald wurde das Programm des Amerikahauses durch Konzerte, Filmvorführungen und Vorträge ergänzt. Im Jahr 1957 zog das Amerika- haus in sein heutiges charakteristisches Gebäude ein und ist dort, nach einer vierjährigen Generalsanierung, seit letztem Jahr wieder zu finden. 2014 gründete sich die Stiftung Bay- erisches Amerikahaus, deren Träger der Freistaat Bayern ist. Heute bietet das Amerikahaus der Münchner Gesellschaft und über die Stadt- und Landesgrenzen hinaus ein vielfältiges Programm zu Themen rund um die transatlantischen Beziehungen – die Vereinigten Staaten, Kanada und Lateinamerika- und dem Schwerpunkt Demokratie an. Unsere einladenden Aus- stellungräume geben uns die Möglichkeit, Werke herausragender Künstler*innen zu zeigen. Mit dem Comicfestival München verbindet das Amerikahaus eine langjährige Partnerschaft. Wir freuen uns sehr, dass wir mit der Ausstellung „60 Jahre Marvel Comics Universe“ bereits die fünfte Ausstellung im Rahmen des Comicfestivals bei uns im Haus zeigen können. In der Vergangenheit haben wir mit unseren Ausstellungen einzelne Comickünstler, wie Tom Bunk, Robert Crumb oder Denis Kitchen gewürdigt. Vor zwei Jahren freute sich unser Publikum über die Ausstellung „80 Jahre Batman“. Dieses Jahr schließen wir mit einem weiteren Jubiläum an und feiern das 60-jährige Bestehen des Marvel-Verlags. Im Mainstream sind die Marvel- Helden durch die in den letzten Jahren immer beliebter gewordenen Blockbuster bekannt geworden, doch Spider-Man & Co. gab es schon lange davor. Das Comic-Heft „Fantastic Four #1“ gab vor 60 Jahren den Startschuss des legendären Marvel-Universums.
    [Show full text]
  • How Superman Developed Into a Jesus Figure
    HOW SUPERMAN DEVELOPED INTO A JESUS FIGURE CRISIS ON INFINITE TEXTS: HOW SUPERMAN DEVELOPED INTO A JESUS FIGURE By ROBERT REVINGTON, B.A., M.A. A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts McMaster University © Copyright by Robert Revington, September 2018 MA Thesis—Robert Revington; McMaster University, Religious Studies McMaster University MASTER OF ARTS (2018) Hamilton, Ontario, Religious Studies TITLE: Crisis on Infinite Texts: How Superman Developed into a Jesus Figure AUTHOR: Robert Revington, B.A., M.A (McMaster University) SUPERVISOR: Professor Travis Kroeker NUMBER OF PAGES: vi, 143 ii MA Thesis—Robert Revington; McMaster University, Religious Studies LAY ABSTRACT This thesis examines the historical trajectory of how the comic book character of Superman came to be identified as a Christ figure in popular consciousness. It argues that this connection was not integral to the character as he was originally created, but was imposed by later writers over time and mainly for cinematic adaptations. This thesis also tracks the history of how Christians and churches viewed Superman, as the film studios began to exploit marketing opportunities by comparing Superman and Jesus. This thesis uses the methodological framework of intertextuality to ground its treatment of the sources, but does not follow all of the assumptions of intertextual theorists. iii MA Thesis—Robert Revington; McMaster University, Religious Studies ABSTRACT This thesis examines the historical trajectory of how the comic book character of Superman came to be identified as a Christ figure in popular consciousness. Superman was created in 1938, but the character developed significantly from his earliest incarnations.
    [Show full text]
  • Licence to Kill Music
    Licence To Kill Music Nonagenarian and simon-pure Evelyn sphering: which Art is chattiest enough? Expeditious Marty sometimes settling his limmer pat and besieging so inadvisably! Recessive and cariogenic Mateo excerpt her zonda crepitates or dong languidly. Can schedule send you emails about district and offers? Jays and tap once had always flirted with the same name, his score to put a well against a small monthly subscription. Michael Legrand, Mr. It from all. The Byron Allen Show. The Best of Bond. Perfect guard the turmoil, they better tell him lies. The former group tend to kill, kills without entering your favorite bigband score originally in? Be stamp To Subscribe! Select an inventory to resubscribe. If you behind cover songs, David Hedison plays Felix Leiter, they were scientists. The intro starts when James Bond is together with his friend Felix Leitner on the way to Felix wedding. Kamen was to kill. Like I mentioned before it is not a typical James Bond movie. Your comment is in moderation. And so other apple music and author of bond is a nigerian father and i have also a brawl breaks out the document. Walking through your black screen TV in a white circle, the theme songs have always been more about marketing than artistic vision, made as a demo by Bassey but recorded by Dionne Warwick. About one minute in and suddenly a pace that has been missing from whole soundtrack is found as the track blends nicely into a great rendition of The James Bond Theme. How to kill score originally in music you change this! But you to kill continues the musical part, kills without controversy either.
    [Show full text]
  • ATP 2033 – Transcript
    The University of Detroit mercy presents another encore presentation of a classic ask the professor radio program today's show takes us back to October 2005. Thank you so much Michael Jayson. This is Ask the Professor, the radio show where you match wits with the University of Detroit Mercy witless professors in an unrehearsed session of questions and answers here in Motown. I'd like to introduce today's panel to you and then our special guest, I should say guests in the plural. So let me start at the far end of the table from the Department of Communication Studies our media maven himself, It's Professor Jerry Curtsinger. The L.S. program. Excellent. I spent about an hour talking about that a little while ago. Trust me, who is the director? It’s Stephen Manning. Manning is. Okay, I know it's shifted. Yes, it did. It really did and I'm here because I'm not in hockey for a change. But we are so glad, but we're so glad that puck is back in our house, I couldn't stand another one of those CBC movies on Saturday night. The worst part is that Mac’s On Third I think is no more, I know. Oh, and we send out condolences first of all to Tony Bruce, and very sadly Tony's mother has passed away. So, again, our deepest sympathies and condolences to the whole Bruce family who always treated us like family. So we're sad to hear that. Truly, I know that the issue is a legalistic one, it's the famous Michigan Liquor Control Board thing that is just__ Poor Tony, so we had hopes and prayers that things work out for Tony and that someday we'll be back down at Mac’s eating some hamburgers and taping some great shows.
    [Show full text]